‘Race’ a great portrait of Jesse Owens and Berlin Olympics (Our grade: A-)

Stephan James stars as Olympic hero Jesse Owens in the new movie “Race.” Photo: Focus Features

Some real-life events couldn’t be more right for movies, and the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics was one of them. In a compressed period of days, everything good about sports came into collision with everything evil in politics.

All the repulsive villains in the upcoming global catastrophe gathered together in a single location, only to find their aspirations thwarted by a single man, the American track and field athlete, Jesse Owens.